Kallir, Vienna, and me 16 Dec When I heard that Jane Kallir and the Kallir Family Foundation were donating 130 works of Viennese and German art to LACMA, I was so excited that I had to contact the Rifkind Center’s Director Tim Benson right away to get more details. Tim knew why: I worked as the Rifkind’s librarian for some ten years during which time I often lamented the Museum’s dearth of Viennese art, my real love and area of expertise. I was also at the Museum when Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907) arrived in Los Angeles with great fanfare, after the successful restitution claim by her heir Maria Altman. When I found out the specific offerings in this bequest, some of which were from Otto Kallir’s original collection, a wave of nostalgia and memories came flooding back. Erika Esau on the H...